Courage Quotes

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?.

The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

What worries you, masters you.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Fate loves the fearless.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

One man with courage makes a majority.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Fortune favors the brave.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Act, and God will act.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Without justice, courage is weak.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Courage is always rewarded.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Courage follows action.

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

We are the carriers of health and disease—either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

Clothes and courage have so much to do with each other.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

There is no substitute for guts.

when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Fortune favours the bold.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things

What one has to do usually can be done.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

A lie is an excuse guarded

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Courage conquers all things.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

One man with courage is a majority.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem—he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.